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Downtown Pittsburgh was lit up in blue on March 25, 2021 to celebrate the Bicentennial of the Greek War of Independence. The area was a hotbed of Philhellenes who supported the Greek cause in 1821 — and some of their descendants supported Greece during WWII as well, many decades later. Credit: American Hellenic Foundation of […]
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Descendants of American Philhellenes Helped Greece Again in 1941
December 4th, 2021 
Awake Goy 
Posted in Jewish News 
Tags: again, american, Descendants, Greece, helped, philhellenes 
No Comments »Boston Philhellenes Remembered on Greek Independence Day
March 29th, 2021 Awake Goy A wreath is placed on the grave of Senator Edward Everett, a president go Harvard University. Credit: Greek Consulate, Boston On the occasion of the bicentenary of the Greek War of Independence, Boston’s Greek-American community commemorated on Saturday two eminent Bostonians, Samuel Gridley Howe and Edward Everett, who helped the Greek cause. The event took […]
